Ler literaturas indígenas: uma experiência antropológica

Abstract

While criticizing the saying “time is money”, Antonio Candido (2011) celebrates the ideas of constructive leisure and, by extension, of literary fruition, to which the literature – as an aesthetic object, an ideological construct, and a knowledge tool – operates as an experience catalyst. In this sense, this paper focus on Brazilian indigenous literature books written by Yaguarê Yamã, from the Maraguá people, as the source of an experience that “passes through us, happens to us, touches us” (BONDÍA, 2022). To do so, here are aligned the understanding of indigenous literature as an extra-western poetics (THIEL, 2022) and ethnography, to which looking, listening, and writing remain as valuable strategies to such literatures (OLIVEIRA, 2017), not authored by foreign anthropologists but by the indigenous writers themselves. Past the knowledge offered by the capitalist mindset, the reading of texts written by authors like Yamã sets indigenous literatures as a teaching tool which ensures meaningful experiences in educational environments.